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Originally Posted by willravel
The current state of terrorism has nothing to do with Muhammed and everything to do with the desperate and extreemist responses by Middle Eastern forces to strategic socioeconomic powerplays by the US and the UK. The pope was simply repeating old world religous bigotry; he slipped and let a little hate out. It's not uncommon for religous leaders to be somewhat defensive of their religon and somewhat offended by other religons. As was stated by Superbelt, many religons have been spread through violence and even "evil", including Christianity and Islam. It's an unfortunate byproduct of people being able to wield the power of the minds of those who are devoted to faith. The thing is, singling out a religon for being violent is like singling out a single tree for being green, and that singling out is usually done by a mamber of another religon. That's called religous bigotry.
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Now you're making assumptions here, will. You can't speak for the dead suicide bomber, you don't
know that he was desperate. you don't know anything about him. You can assume all you want, but unless you've actually spoken to someone who'se driven a bomb-laden truck into a mosque or strapped himself full of explosives packed with ball bearings, you don't know that they were really desperate or really why they do what they do. How is a sunni gunning down shiites on the streets of baghdad a strategic response to the socioeconomic powerplays by the US and UK? The gunman is still a terrorist, trying to instill terror in others. Is he desperate? I don't know, and neither do you.
By the way, the first thing muhammed did when he started his religion was create an army and start conquering. I don't think Jesus and the apostles did that. It wasn't until much later that christianity was used as a justification for war, however war and islam are bound at the hip.